Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pseudocopaiva hymenaefolia (Moric.) Britton & Wilson, Tropical Woods 20: 28. 1929.
Copaifera hymenaefolia Moric. Mem. Soc. Geneve 6: 529. 1833. Copaiba hymenaefolia Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 172. 1891.
A slender tree, 10 m. high, or higher. Leaflets obliquely ovate or lanceolate, 4-7 cm. long, acuminate, reticulateveined, shining; racemes shorter than the leaves; sepals glabrous and black-punctate without, densely white-tomentose within; stamens about twice as long as the sepals; ovary a little longer than the stamens, flattened, tapering into the style; stipe of legume 5-6 mm. long, slender; legume strongly flattened, short-oblong to orbicular, 2-2.5 cm. long; seed short-oblong, oblique at base, 1-1.5 cm. long, rounded.
Type locality: Cuba.
Distribution: Cuba and Isle of Pines.
- bibliographic citation
- Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
